Geoffrey Raynor Betting The Farm On These Real Estate Stocks

Geoffrey Raynor’s Q Investments has filed its 13F with the SEC for the reporting period of March 31, 2015, disclosing a public equity portfolio valued at $547.50 million. Raynor is the founding partner of the firm, which he founded the investment firm in 1994. The investment firm has over $3.41 billion in assets under management and works out of its offices in Fort Worth, Texas. Raynor’s fund is most heavily invested in the technology sector overall, though the bulk of his top picks are real estate-related, and it’s these picks which we’ll look at in this article, them being M/I Homes Inc (NYSE:MHO), LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH), and Forestar Group Inc. (NYSE:FOR). All of these companies are micro-cap investments, with M/I Homes Inc (NYSE:MHO) being the highest valued of the three with a market cap of $609.39 million.

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M/I Homes Inc (NYSE:MHO) is the second ranked long position of Raynor, who owns 728,023 shares of the single-family home builder, with a value of $17.36 million. The real estate firm improved its quarterly revenue by 12% to $263 million in the first quarter of 2015, with earnings per share of $0.31, which was lower than the prior year earnings per share of $0.41. Market experts are expecting M/I Homes Inc (NYSE:MHO) to report earnings per share of $0.40 for the current quarter. The shares of the company have improved 9.72% year-to-date. Royce & Associates and Gratia Capital are among the primary stockholders of M/I Homes Inc (NYSE:MHO) with investments worth $16.91 million and $16.90 million, respectively.